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Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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I tried the search site at https://searcha.page/ by searching for something random and got the following message: "An error has occurred building the search results."

Yep, my usage increased 20x week over week. It was actually the context expansion that was my bottleneck, not the search itself. My usage graph looks almost vertical. Not sure if this counts as a good week or a bad week.

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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"The beefy CPU running this setup, a 32-core AMD EPYC 7532, underlines just how fast technology moves. At the time of its release in 2020, the processor alone would have cost more than $3,000. It can now be had on eBay for less than $200" why do I never get deals like that when I am shopping for the homelab on eBay?

Get a QC type chip and roll the dice, that's how I got mine. The biggest cost for me is disk and to a lesser extent ram, the chip itself was relatively cheap.

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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Search websites by Ryan Pearce: - SearchaPage - Web Search Engine https://searcha.page/ - Seek Ninja - Stealthy Search Engine https://seek.ninja/

https://searcha.page/s?q=blog https://seek.ninja/s?q=blog Both of them are erroring out right now?

Yep, it was load. Usage increased 20x week over week, especially today. I think I failed my trial by fire. Got a good plan for scaling capacity and better UX for when its under strain.

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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post #54

"The beefy CPU running this setup, a 32-core AMD EPYC 7532, underlines just how fast technology moves. At the time of its release in 2020, the processor alone would have cost more than $3,000. It can now be had on eBay for less than $200" why do I never get deals like that when I am shopping for the homelab on eBay?

AliExpress broseph. You'll get it in no time. I've gotten. Go do QS if you have some risk tolerance and ES if you also have time tolerance.

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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I greatly prefer Kagi https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/ but it's very nice to see more competition in this space in general.

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Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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I think there are two factors that helped Google. First, the search engine landscape back then was absolutely abysmal. I'm sure someone will chime in saying that it's abysmal today as well, but the reality is that 99%+ of consumer searches get good results today. And that's simply because the nature of search has changed: we have billions of people using the internet, and they overwhelmingly just search for products…

Google maps is probably a big moat that's very hard to replicate. You can't as easily just crawl all of that data. It's not easy to generate directions. The average user doesn't want to use your search engine for one thing and Google for everything else, they just want a one stop shop for search.

The average user might want a one stop shop.

That's not a showstopper. It's ok to not be everything to everyone.

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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Cant you just request the ICANN’s zone files and have the canonical list of the day?

Any link list, or domain list is not worth much without any rating, or meta. I lead a hobby project, and I am not expert, so I provide ratings based on what kind of data pages provide (title, social, description), and my own manual voting system. It is not ideal, but it is something. Also I provide tags, so it is easily known what the domain provides, or domains can be filtered by tags. I know that you cannot count a…

Well, if you are curating every link them its a different story, and looks like a more classic webring - I missed that part of the work - I thought it looked like a big set of crawler data that wasn't as manually curated.

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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post #116

The photo of the power socket right next to the sink looks safe

I'm planning on running a cord through my wall, I just keep putting it off :D

Absolutely don't run an extension cord through a wall, that's only slightly less of a fire hazard than storing a gasoline can on top of the server. Extension cords are normally very derated, expecting occasional use and ample cooking not being inside a wall. Better to keep it as-is, or have a 20A dedicated circuit run.

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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Not for a CPU but earlier this year I bought a Thinkpad workstation off eBay for $500. It's a machine from 2020 and when it was new cost $5,700. I see this for pretty much all hardware out on eBay, just go back 5 years and watch the price fall 10x.

Has eBay fixed their "and then they ship you a box of rocks" problem? I feel like there was a five year span where everyone I talked to said buying or selling electronics on eBay was a nightmare, so I'm a little curious if I need to re-evaluate my priors.

Every single laptop I've bought off of ebay (all of which were used) over the past ten years has functioned perfectly and flawlessly. You just pay attention to the number of recent sales the account has had and their overall rating.
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